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Autor a multiple cărți politice. un lider global de gândire și un strateg inovativ.

Statement before the House of Commons Defence Committee on Future Force 2020

1. It is a great privilege and compliment to appear before this committee.  I have known a number of its distinguished members as well as chairmen from even before Bruce George sat at its head to James Arbuthnot and very much respect your work. 2. As you know, this committee is not vested with the same constitutional authority as the U.S. Congress’s two Armed Services Committees.  That does not mean you cannot and should not play a more important role in the defence debate; exercising oversight; identifying critical issues; and issuing reports such as your excellent study on FF 2020. 3.  As a further postscript, I had the very good [...]

By |2017-11-14T21:28:02+02:0010 noiembrie 2014|Apărare / Securitate Naţională, Blog, Harlan Ullman, Pace & Securitate, Subiecte|0 Comentarii
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America votes

Next Tuesday, America goes to the polls to elect all manner of officials from city counsel person and sheriff to members of Congress.  Congressional and gubernatorial races have of course attracted national attention.  While the House of Representatives will remain firmly in Republican hands, the future control of the Senate is uncertain. Both parties predict that should they lose or win the Senate, the future of the nation is at stake.  Unfortunately, whether Republicans win or Democrats maintain Senatorial control, it will make little difference.  The political system is badly broken and all the king’s horses and all the king’s men cannot repair it. Interestingly, control of the Senate races [...]

By |2017-11-14T21:28:02+02:0010 noiembrie 2014|America, Blog, Harlan Ullman, Regiuni|0 Comentarii
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Three big bets to defeat IS

If the civilized world has any chance of defeating the Islamic State (IS) and other Sunni-based terrorist groups, three big bets must pay-off. And winning each bet is not sufficient.  The pay-offs must be sustained for an extended period if this scourge is to be defeated. The first bet is that President Barack Obama has grown in office and has learned from past errors and mistakes. Second is that Secretary of State John Kerry will be given the authority to execute the strategy. And third is that the Iraqi government fully understands that it is in a fight to the death with IS and acts accordingly in reconciling with the [...]

By |2014-11-10T20:40:20+02:0026 octombrie 2014|General|0 Comentarii
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A defining moment in history

Make no mistake: in taking the fight to the Islamic State (IS or aka the Enemies of Islam), President Barack Obama is at a defining moment for his presidency and probably the future.  Perhaps less spectacular than the fall of the Berlin Wall and the implosion of the Soviet Union a quarter of a century ago or September 11th, the decision to catalyze a global fight against Islamic extremism and terrorism could be as far reaching in consequence.  Consider the grounds for this conclusion. The accumulating grievances dating back to well before the Sykes-Picot secret treaty of 1916 sliced Mesopotamia into indigestible parts have become irreversible thus forcing religious, ethnic, [...]

By |2014-10-12T20:51:15+03:0012 octombrie 2014|Blog, Harlan Ullman, Orientul Mijlociu, Regiuni, Subiecte, Terorism|0 Comentarii
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Big ideas needed now

When confronting a big problem, President General of the Army Dwight Eisenhower believed that the best solution could be found by making the problem bigger.  What he meant was that in moving from, in military terms, a tactical to a strategic solution the latter would resolve the former.  This is what President Barack Obama must do as he confronts a world of volatility and uncertainty perhaps unlike any other period in memory. In fact, today could be an inflection point as great or greater than the end of the Cold War or September 11th. The president’s strategic approach is cautious and restrained yet uses often-excessive rhetoric such as announcing a [...]

By |2017-11-14T21:28:02+02:0012 octombrie 2014|Analize si studii, Blog, Harlan Ullman, Pace & Securitate, Subiecte, Terorism|0 Comentarii
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